Tour participants on Lowther Avenue, Writing Change in the Annex, June 11, 2023.
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Resource ID
10907
Access
Open
Credit Line
Image by Heritage Toronto
Date of Creation
10 June 2023
People Depicted
Lindsay Chisholm (Tour leader)
Program Category
Tours
Rights
Heritage Toronto
Caption
Tour participants on Lowther Avenue, Writing Change in the Annex, June 11, 2023.
Description
Tour participants learn about Canadian writer and poet Elizabeth Smart. Her mother successfully lobbied to ban the Canadian publication of her daughter’s novel, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. The work was inspired by Smart's tumultuous affair with poet George Barker. Both had been held in the United States in 1940 under the Mann Act—a law to prohibit the sex trafficking of women across state borders, often used unlawfully against consensual but unwed or interracial couples.
Having spent most of her life abroad, at the age of 70, Smart moved to Lowther Avenue in the Annex neighbourhood for a short Writer-in-Residence program at the University of Toronto.